Developing and Evaluating Assessments

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Quality classroom assessment is perhaps the most important thing a teacher can do to facilitate learning. We can use this page to gather some resources on assessment and link to our own efforts at developing assessments.

Reacting to Gallagher's Treatment of Assessment

Work in your assigned groups to answer the questions below.
Question
 Group
Review the RI Lesson Planning Framework in light of what you read in Ch 07. Explain how formative assessment is related to developing instructional objectives.
 Group1
Interactive (Teacher-led) Discussions, Worksheets, and Laboratory Investigations are mainstays of classroom instruction. Develop a table comparing the features of these activities that are slightly or highly aligned with Gallagher's ideas on formative assessment.
 Group2
Explain three ways that Chapter 7's description of formative assessment contribute to a novice teacher's view of teaching and "teaching for understanding?"
 Group 3
Explain the Formative Assessment Cycle represented in Figure 7.1. What implications does this cycle have for your approach to unit (and lesson) planning?
 Group 4
Explain why an understanding of students' misconceptions is important in planning, enacting, analyzing, and responding to formative assessment. Choose one common misconception from each of your units and describe a formative assessment strategy that each of you plans to use.
 Group 5

Assessment Overview


Evaluating Assessments Developed By Others

Examine the NECAP released items.
  • Work in the groups of three listed below.
  • Evaluate each item for its depth of knowledge

Assessment Resources


Here is a list of science practices you can use to build assessments.
Chapter 5 of the NSES describes Assessment. At the end of this chapter is a table summarizing the changes needed in classroom assessment.

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Sources of good assessment items:


Assessment Readings